Government Depository Publications
https://hdl.handle.net/10365/26369
2024-03-29T07:34:58ZFargo Flood Oral History; Zachary Drechsel
https://hdl.handle.net/10365/33106
Fargo Flood Oral History; Zachary Drechsel
Drechsel, Zachary
Drechsel describes his experience helping residents in Moorhead during the floods of 1997 and 2009.
his oral history was collected as part of a exhibit Disasters: Stories we share, a traveling exhibit funded by the NEH. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this oral history collection, do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities (www.neh.gov).
2023-01-01T00:00:00ZDisasters: the Stories We Share
https://hdl.handle.net/10365/33076
Disasters: the Stories We Share
Caro, Susanne; Chiewphasa, Ben; Kirk, Jennifer
How do community-based and media-based narratives of disaster differ and how do these presentations affect communities and civic response? To answer this question, our project encourages and supports communities in sharing their collective memory. This is accomplished through creating a customizable traveling exhibit, providing the additional opportunity to build a larger narrative of experiences across the country.
Primary Team: Susanne Caro, NDSU Libraries; Jen Kirk, Utah State University Libraries; Ben Chiewphasa, Columbia University.
University of Montana, Missoula: Tobin Shearer, Historian, African-American Studies; Erin Baucom, Digital Archivist;
Natalie Bond, Government Information Librarian.
Utah State University: Jen Kirk,* Government Information Librarian;
Daniel Davis, exhibit design, photographs curator;
Blair Larsen, Geoscience Education, natural disasters;
Shay Larsen, Graphic Designer.
North Dakota State University: Susanne Caro, Government Information Librarian; Chelsea Olmsted, Historian; Sarah Kirkpatrick, Emergency Management.
Minnesota State U. Moorhead: Trista Raezer-Stursa, Archivist.
Columbia University, NY: Ben Chiewphasa*, Social Sciences and Policy Librarian; Emily Schmidt, Journalism and Government Information Librarian; Kae Bara Kratcha, Social Work and Professional Studies Librarian.
Any views, findings, or recommendations expressed in this exhibit and website, do not necessarily present those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
This traveling exhibit focuses on disasters. Unfortunately, disasters happen everywhere. They deeply affect local communities and are often well-documented. Additionally, disasters are personal. Disasters can mean a lot of things to a lot of people.
Documenting disasters may influence change, emphasize varied narratives, demonstrate social inequities, and/or be part of a community’s resilient response. However, disasters should be told by those who were most affected. This exhibit explores historic collections with the aid of external consultants to identify relevant disaster events, promotes humanities content and analysis, and encourages our participating hosts to contribute to the evolving story.
2021-01-01T00:00:00ZStaying Above Water
https://hdl.handle.net/10365/33060
Staying Above Water
Caro, Susanne; Raezer-Stursa, Trista; Olmsted, Chelsea
For over 100 years, Red River floods defined the cities and people who experienced the rising waters – not only due to the destruction, but the feelings and relationships developed during a time of restoration. Some areas may still show the wear and tear of the flood, but nearby restaurants, shops, and other small businesses are alive and bustling. The images in the exhibit show a community with some scars, but one that continued to thrive.
The subject of floods was chosen for the Fargo-Moorhead portion of the traveling exhibit and was a collaboration between Trista Raezer-Stursa, University Archivist, Minnesota State University Moorhead; Chelsea Olmsted, Legacy of the Lakes Museum, Alexandria, Minnesota; and Susanne Caro, Government Information Librarian, North Dakota State University Libraries.
Disasters: Stories we share, a traveling exhibit is funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Each host site created an exhibit banner based on events in their community. Additional content was included in the virtual exhibit https://disasterexhibit.org/.
Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this oral history collection, do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities (www.neh.gov).
2020-01-01T00:00:00ZWater for the modern farmstead.
https://hdl.handle.net/10365/33022
Water for the modern farmstead.
United States. Rural Electrification Administration.
Plenty of water is essential both productive farming and comfortable farm living. Without electricity, and adequate supply of water on the average farm has meant heavy work- time and labor spent pumping and carrying water to livestock and gardens, to dairy barns and other outbuildings, and to the kitchen and the rest of the home to keep them supplied.
1944-03-01T00:00:00Z